Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga 2.04 and ALSA

[George Boyd <geboyd53 comcast net>]

Thanks everyone for your help. All my ALSA stuff is upgraded to the
latest versions. I found that to get it to work right with Ekiga, I had
remove the asound.conf file. This doesn't make any sense because I never
had any problems with it before.

I agree with Rene, I just don't get it with ALSA. How did they become
the standard and be such a headache at the same time?


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 21:13 +0100, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  sound on linux continues to be a problem.
> >
> > In some of my darker momements, I have mispronounced "ALSA" as
> > "ulcer".
> >
> > So where is real problem?
> > The alsa plugins in pwlib follow the alsa examples, and "should"
> > be correct. Then a bit of reading finds that between alsa
> > 1.0.10 and 1.0.11   (or was it 1.0.11 and 1.0.12?) that the alsa
> > internals were changed to add an extra dmix operator in the
> > system asound.conf  and I just don't get it.
> >
> > Do we decide that the direction of alsa is not right for this project
> > and work on a openal based plugin. Will that be more reliable ?
> 
> 
> Since Ekiga 2.0.4 ALSA works fine for me.
> 
> First, don't use ALSA driver 1.0.11*! (Upgrade your kernel or driver modules)
> 
> I'm using the Gentoo versions of  "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
> Driver Version 1.0.12rc1" (Kernel 2.6.18), alsa-lib 1.0.14, alsa-headers
> 1.0.14 and alsa-utils 1.0.14, opal 2.2.4, pwlib 1.10.3 and Ekiga 2.0.4.
> 
> With the following asound.conf I'm using just the "Default" devices for
> audio in Ekiga 2.0.4 (just rename your audio card):
> 
> ----------------------------------- snip -----------------------------------
> 
> 
> pcm.!default {
>     type plug
>     slave.pcm {
>         type asym
>         playback.pcm {
>             type        dmix
>             ipc_key     1024
>             ipc_perm    0666
>             slave.pcm {
>                 type    hw
>                 card    "Audio"
>             }
>         }
>         capture.pcm {
>             type        dsnoop
>             ipc_key     1025
>             ipc_perm    0666
>             slave.pcm {
>                 type    hw
>                 card    "U0x46d0x8cb"
>             }
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> ctl.!default {
>     type        hw
>     card        "Audio"
> }
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------- snap ----------------------------------
> 
> Renne
> 
> 
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